Crossroads

“Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways [or crossroads] and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls.�?(Jeremiah 6:16)

In the 2002 Britney Spears movie Crossroads, three girls who are best friends and a guy they just met take a road trip across America. In the crossroads of life, we need to follow God and not Britney Spears if we want to prosper and find rest for our souls.

We teach our children to stop and look both ways before they cross the street. We make sure it is safe for them to cross, so that if a car is coming, they can be safe on the side of the street. We tell our children to cross at the crosswalk and not jaywalk in the middle of the block. We give our children instructions and expect them to follow. We do this because we love them and want them to be safe.

Now as adults, many of us are trippin�?because we fail to walk in the path of God. Some of us got even more trips from drugs than from the Word of God. We can find all of this by seeking God’s will as we meditate on the Word of God daily and searching for direction. Every path we take has instructions for us to follow, and those instructions are clearly written in the Word of God without any reservations and none of the guilt trips.

The Word shows us the consequences of wrong decisions and the promises of blessings from right ones. Like children, we need to listen and follow the directions the Bible gives us because it is given to us out of love and for our own protection. Lincoln Navigators are fine, but God gave us His Word so that we may know which way to go.

God our heavenly Father directs our path daily, but too often we turn a deaf ear to His leading. We drift, we fall and we even get lost because we want to Go Our Own Way like Fleetwood Mac even when it leads to nothing but cul-de-sacs, U-turns, deadends, pain and disappointment. Pride is what tells us we can do it all by ourselves, but it would be so much easier if we get it right the first time by following God’s Word.